To further advance our mission and accommodate our growing presence, activities, and importance, we have set our sights on building a campus that will feature a Hebrew museum besides housing the Academy. In 2012 the Israeli government embraced our initiative, deciding to share in the vision to establish the Minve – the new campus for the Academy of the Hebrew Language that promises to be a site of national significance and a global hub for the living Hebrew language.
The Municipality of Jerusalem has earmarked a piece of land for the Minve in Jerusalem’s National Quarter, alongside the Knesset, the Supreme Court, the National Library, and the Israel Museum. The location, a short walk from so many national attractions, situates the Academy in a prestigious and meaningful place commensurate with its mission and positions the Minve to become a prominent cultural destination for both Israelis and tourists from abroad.
The new, state-of-the-art facility will expand and strengthen our interaction with the public, through increased programming and through the world’s first museum devoted to the Hebrew language – its history, evolution, and revival as a native tongue. Through interactive exhibitions with visual, aural, and experiential components, the museum will engage visitors both intellectually and emotionally, reflecting the centrality of Hebrew to Israeli and Jewish life and culture.
The noun מִנְוֶה (minve) chosen to designate our future home is a neologism derived from the word נָוֶה, which means both ‘beautiful, pleasant’ and ‘home, abode’; מִנְוֶה belongs to the same pattern as the nouns מַחֲנֶה (‘camp’) and מִצְפֶּה (‘lookout, observatory’). Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, former president of the Academy, coined the word.
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